Faculty
Ranjan Pal (holding a PhD in Computer Science) is a Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management who is a cybersecurity expert and broadly conducts and leads research on cyber risk/resilience management through Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (CAMS) using the interplay of computer science, decision science, and applied mathematics. He is also currently an invited member of the systems cyber-resilience working group (WG) at the World Economic Forum contributing his expert insights on solving the most important societal challenges on cyber resilience - some insights reaching the White House. Ranjan pioneered the field of mathematical models adjudicating the market sustainability of cyber-insurance solutions. He has acted as strategic cyber risk management advisor to corporations and has been an invited expert on government research review panels in science and technology.
Ranjan has published/contributed to nearly 100 research articles in premier academic, policy, and global business outlets that include ACM/IEEE/AIS/Elsevier journal and conference proceedings, World Economic Forum reports, Forbes, The Financial Times, The Economic Times, The Financial Express, Re-InAsia, and The Times of India. He has been an invited speaker in nearly 50 venues around the globe, and has held visiting research and faculty positions at leading business and technology institutes of the world. These include the University of Michigan, University of Cambridge, Princeton University, Indian School of Business, Tsinghua University, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and the All India Institute of Medical Science. Ranjan is an Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems and has been a Technical Program Committee member of the Winter Simulation Conference.
In his spare time, Ranjan is a scholar, book author, and life-long research student of Vedic (Parashari) astrology (Jyotish) through his family tradition. He is formally and personally trained by the brilliant Dr. Richa Shukla (a renowned professional Vedic astrologer in India and a direct student of the world-renowned astrology legend Shri K. N. Rao), equivalent of the Jyotish Alankar and Jyotish Acharya degrees for professional Vedic astrology. Ranjan also studies Vedanta philosophy.
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"Every digital enterprise should adopt a new approach to tackling cybersecurity threats that move beyond prevention."
Michael Siegel and Ranjan Pal present four action items for using AI as a tool to improve APT cyber-risk management in critical infrastructure.
